When you look at this, for those of you that don't understand, there's this woman named Candace Owens, and she is one of the leaders and one of the staff on a famous organization called Turning Point USA, which essentially is a nonpartisan group that fights for free speech and the Constitution and all those scary terms that leftists are afraid of today.
Well, when you watch something very interesting, she was put on as a witness on a forum that was talking about, of course, the rise of white nationalism.
Because of course, while homelessness is at an all-time high, we have massive problems even still with poverty in our country.
A huge portion of minorities actually go hungry.
We are worried about non-existent problems.
But why would I be surprised?
And of course, no better to comment on the fact that white nationalism is not rising than a black woman to let the world know that white men are not the enemy of the free people, Don Lemon.
Honestly, Don Lemon, if white people were the enemy, why'd you marry one?
Here's the truth.
I started kind of thinking this week, why is it that free speech is under attack?
Why is it that we are in a place where we are attacking our own citizens?
For instance, we look in other countries like the UK, where Tommy Robinson, who's a famous political activist, has been entirely silenced by online platforms, including YouTube, simply because he's decided to speak out against his government.
Now, if you think that London isn't lost, the truth of the matter is they don't have free speech protection for press or free speech protection for citizens.
So they are now attacking their own citizens to the point where his government pressured YouTube to restrict his account.
Now, Tommy Robinson didn't violate any laws or guidelines, but he has a video where he is basically helping out kids with cancer.
And when you click on it, it says this video is inappropriate for most users and may be offensive.
Yeah, I am offended by kids with cancer.
I want to live in my leftist utopia where I think that the biggest issue is transgenderism and queer rights.
I don't want to talk about real ideas.
But it's not just him who's under attack.
We see the truth that people even in America where we have protections and laws like Alex Jones are completely being obliterated.
But people are hungry for the truth.
See, Alex Jones this week was on, I think it was Logan Paul's podcast called Impulsive.
And we see the truth where Alex Jones speaks out against his accusers who have doctored footage and made him just to be an enemy that he's not.
See, when he spoke about Sandy Hook, which was a controversial topic, Alex Jones was taken out of context to be seen as a liar.
They've written literally a hundred, they've written over a thousand articles that have been syndicated, over a hundred thousand articles.
We had a LexisNexis Thompson Reuters analysis done two months ago.
Hundreds of thousands of repost articles, hundreds of national TV shows, over 15 national specials about me and Sandy Hook.
And Megan Kelly interviewed me for six hours, edited down to three minutes, where something from an hour before would be edited with an answer from an hour later where it had no intelligible connection to reality.
That's what's so beautiful.
Is live.
This is real.
I told Megan Kelly Sandy Hook happened, I believe kids died.
If it hurt people's feelings that I questioned it and the internet did, I apologize.
She edited it to say that I said no kids died.
That's gonna be in the lawsuit.
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It's called clickbait, my friend she, and then they sued me for her edits.
You goddamn lying and Alex is right these are goddamn lying that are out there to try to take us down, and whether it's the government in the Uk, whether it is the mainstream media or even, as we're finding out recently, tech companies that are colluding to take down members of their own country from freely expressing themselves, we are in a position of absolute information warfare.
But I started asking myself, how are these people getting into power?
How do these companies gain the wealth and the know-how to begin to take control and influence a country when the people's interest is completely taken out of mind?
So I was on Instagram.
Of course, it's never going to be a good story when you start out with this, and I was watching a video from um, this really awesome guy that you all love.
His name is Brad Pitt.
Now obviously, being that it seems like most of his politics and ideas come from the place that is his last name, we quickly find out that Brad Pitt is just as lost as anyone in La, there's a CITY Council hearing.
Brad Pitt comes on okay, first of all, the guy's old.
Now you're not good looking anymore, Brad Pitt.
What are you 55?
Nobody's hot at 55.
Your hair plugs aren't even believable.
And he comes on to city Council, of course, to ask for something that will really help Los Angeles, which is suffering from medieval diseases.
At this point, he asks for exactly what you're thinking, 650 million dollars to renovate the Los Angeles County Museum Of Modern Art.
The same museum that spent about 36 million dollars to purchase a rock like an actual, just a rock and called it art.
The same place that you've probably seen in every instagram story.
You saw all those lights, those lampposts and I.
I am not saying that they're all but realistically, most of them probably are.
I don't know anyone who takes a picture of their butt 65 times a month and thinks that somehow that's going to push and further women's rights in this country.
Anyways, these lamp posts are in the front.
It's like this is a museum that thinks that lamps are art.
I don't know what world he's living in, but of course you're like, fine, ask people to raise money.
No, he's asking for 117 million dollars.
117 million dollars.
And so I started thinking who?
Who believes this stuff?
Who are these people that live in California?
And I started going down the rabbit hole and I found uh, someone's post, a woman who curates crystals.
She sells crystals.
She's the one who shared the post and she actually um, she sells crystals to cure the disease of, called solar um pleclarion complexion um, which is again just a bullshit, made-up disease that she sells the solution for.
And i'm looking through her page, she's promoting Brad Pitt's obsession to ask for more money that ignores the real problems.
She's even supporting Maxine Waters.
But I go down to it and I go hold up.
Where, Where do all these people live?
And of course, it comes down to they all live in District 33 of California, which is, of course, our very good friend, Representative Ted Liu, which is the same guy who was accusing Candace Owens of being a black white supremacist.
Now, what's absolutely insane is that he took her comments completely out of context to try to push a false narrative.
And this is the world that we're living in.
In just a moment here, we're going to watch this clip.
This is the craziest rabbit hole that comes around the block.
We have a government who's trying to create a narrative that's being supported by the mainstream media, and then opposition is being taken out by big tech companies.
And I can guarantee you that this episode is going to be completely demonetized, because anytime you actually focus on a single inch of the truth, they shut you down.
We actually have our last video.
They already shut it down.
We got 140,000 views in less than 12 hours as our fastest video.
And now in the last seven hours, it's gotten zero, zero views.
It's completely shut down.
Fine, it's demonetized.
I don't care.
You're not going to stop the truth.
Watch Candace Owens lay it down.
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All right.
So my first question is to Ms. Hershanoff.
Ms. Owens said, quote, if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine.
The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany.
So when people try to legitimize Adolf Hitler, does that feed into white nationalist ideology?
It does, Mr. Liu.
I know that Ms. Owens distanced herself from those comments later, but we expressed great concern over the original comments.
Yes, I think it's pretty apparent that Mr. Liu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety.
He purposely presented an extract an extracted clip.
The witness will suspend for a moment.
It is not proper to refer disparagingly to a member of the committee.
The witness will not do that again.
Witness may continue.
Sure, even though I was called despicable.
Witness may not refer to a member of the committee as stupid.
I didn't refer to him as stupid.
That's not what I said.
That's not what I said at all.
You didn't listen to what I said.
May I continue?
Please.
As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full two-hour clip.
And he purposefully extracted, he cut off and you didn't hear the question that was asked of me.
He's trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany when in fact the question that was asked of me was perturning to whether or not I believed that Hitler was a whether or not I believed in nationalism and that nationalism was bad.
And what I responded to was that I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist.
He was a homicidal psychopathic maniac that killed his own people.
A nationalist would not kill their own people.
That is exactly what I was referring to in the clip.
And he purposely wanted to give you a cut up similar to what they do to Donald Trump to create a different narrative.
That was unbelievably dishonest and he did not allow me to respond to it, which is worrisome and should tell you a lot about where people are today in terms of trying to drum up narratives.
By the way, I would like to also add that I work for Prager University, which is run by an Orthodox Jew, and a single Democrat showed up to the embassy opening in Jerusalem.
I sat on a plane for 18 hours to make sure that I was there.
I'm deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me.
Candice Owens is pissed and rightfully so because you're talking about besides being an activist, besides being somebody who's out in the public eye, she's also just a citizen.
And when she's standing before a Senate committee and she's being berated with questions, comments, and even her own quotes taken out of context to make her seem like she's complicit in a terrible travesty, which is racism, just because she's conservative, yeah, she's upset.
And I'm not surprised because what we're noticing today is that governments now infiltrated by lefties, primarily concentrated in specific regions like New York, Massachusetts, and California as the worst offender, are actually coming against the people of this country to try to control a narrative.
Now, here's where the information warfare starts.
We always begin with the government because we have to hold the government responsible.
But then we also have to realize that the media plays a role in reinforcing what the government is trying to control through policy.
And then big tech companies are here to filter out which information we see.
But it always starts here at the government.
And no worse victim of this government overreach would be Julian Assange, which we know who was arrested this week.
Now, Julian Assange, if you don't know, this is not a news podcast.
If you want to watch the news, go watch Dan Bongino or Ben Shapiro.
Here, I'm just going to lay it out realistically.
The Ecuadorian embassy where Julian Assange, the founder, I believe, in many ways, although other people helped him of WikiLeaks, was kicked out and arrested by UK officials.
Now, Ecuadorian president, who came in in 2017, kicked him out because he believes that Julian Assange played a role in exposing private information about him and his wife after the president restricted some of Julian Assange's privileges to the internet.
First of all, what the hell are you doing trying to restrict Julian Assange access to the internet?
That's like honestly trying to restrict access to my wife's body.
I'm not going to listen to you.
I'm going to invade that.
That's my domain.
You can't take Julian Assange away from this computer.
It's foolishness, okay?
But Julian Assange comes in, he gets falsely accused, gets kicked out.
The UK gets him on a technicality, says he broke his bond.
They arrest him.
He's clearly in bad health.
He walked out looking like he was like the missing dwarf from Snow White.
Okay.
He was like, what happened to this guy?
Apparently living five or so years scooped up inside of a small embassy is not going to lead to a healthy mindset or physical appearance.
Of course, then the US says, let's extradite him back because he conspired to release information with Chelsea Manning.
Okay, first off, Chelsea Manning, yuck, gross, okay?
Look at her.
Look her up.
It's disgusting.
But on top of that, Chelsea Manning is free.
Chelsea Manning is doing fine.
Chelsea Manning has been pardoned.
When we come into this picture, we're looking at Julian Assange being attacked by the government.
Now, if you think Trump's behind this, it's really confusing because on one hand, Trump has praised WikiLeaks for their work to expose and hack Hillary Clinton's emails.
On the other hand, some of Trump's previous cabinet, like Mike Pompeo, has also criticized Julian Assange and said he's basically an enemy of the free people.
Now, what we have here is Julian Assange is a rogue person, obviously, with some influence, working against the globalists and actually fighting against governments to the point where Trump in his OG days was trying to set him free, but now is being restricted and arrested on breaking bond.
I call bullshit.
That's not true.
You know that it's not true.
I know it's not true.
They want to silence this guy.
Now, in the old days, the government just used to kill you.
They would easily just chop off your head.
No one would hear from you again.
But now what they do today is if they can't get the mainstream media and tech companies to deplatform you and take away your wealth, then what they do is they find you on technicalities.
This is the new thing that we're finding.
You technically broke a law.
Every day I technically break a law.
In California, using a plastic straw is technically breaking the law.
I don't care.
I will still do it.
Now, where we come to on this matter, how is Julian Assange's arrest affecting the rest of the world?
Well, Julian Assange showed us that one man with a determination to expose hidden information can truly and effectively undermine the entire global elite's attempt to take us over.
Now, if you think I'm sounding crazy, good, because the truth is crazy.
But I have to say that whatever happens with Julian Assange when he comes back to the United States as the extradition request is being given to the UK, I'm praying to God that we do the right thing and that we pardon him.
Because the truth is, is that when you're working for the people of the world and for the people of this country, you're doing the right thing.
And no law can be set up or written against doing what's good for the betterment of humanity.
Julian Assange is a good guy.
He's on our side.
And I think that being extradited, we're going to find out the truth behind the DNC, the truth behind the Democrat government side of our society, and also the truth about Seth Rich.
Yes, Julian Assange knows things.
People don't want him to speak them.
And he's using them against the government as leverage.
The truth always wins.
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But it's not just the government, as we mentioned earlier.
Big tech companies are absolutely colluding to try to restrict our access as the people to the information that we want.
And that's what's so crazy about this whole idea of trying to take away the right of people to listen to freedom of expression.
I mean, just the other night, right, a protester tried to spray bleach on Michael Knowles, who's one of the commentators on The Daily Wire.
He's a nice guy.
He's a Yale graduate.
He's your run-of-the-mill suit-wearing conservative with an intellectual capacity way above mine.
And someone said, hey, I'm going to spray bleach on you.
But you know what?
Attacks in the physical sense are not what I'm worried about.
What I'm worried about is almost our biggest strength.
You know, they say that your biggest weakness when controlled can be what makes you the greatest and the strongest person.
The same goes with these sketchy policies from tech companies like YouTube.
Now, YouTube has terrible guidelines and policies on what is hate speech.
And we know that hate speech isn't even real because the Supreme Court actually already decided in a landmark ruling that hate speech actually doesn't exist.
Not only is hate speech free speech, it just doesn't exist.
If you didn't know this, look it up, get the background and the information.
Maybe again, watch somebody else to get more information than me.
But I'm going to tell you the truth.
When tech companies start censoring us and telling us that we can't produce content that they don't like because it doesn't make them feel good, what they're saying is that they're above the government because they're more important.
Their policies go beyond the laws of the land and not even just municipalities or local laws.
It goes beyond the Supreme Court.
And a good example of this would be Hunter Avalo.
Now, a lot of you guys have probably already watched my updates on what happened with Hunter.
And for those of you that didn't, Hunter was randomly deleted.
He's a conservative YouTuber who basically just makes fun of liberals and their madness in the country.
Nothing too insane.
Doesn't talk a lot about politicians besides Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But he woke up to find his account deleted.
No warning, no strike system, just gone because he's full of hate.
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So I posted the video on Sunday night as I usually do, and it was performing normally, so I went to bed.
The next morning, however, my YouTube channel was deleted, suspended, completely gone.
I was given no warnings, and I didn't even receive three strikes.
My channel was just completely terminated out of the blue.
I'm not going to get up here and lie to you guys.
I was definitely pretty worried.
I mean, this is my job, and I worked for several years to build my channel into what it is today.
Not only that, but I have a baby now.
And the first thought that crossed my mind was, how am I going to make money?
Now, when we look at this, what we're finding is that they deleted him.
Why?
Because his ideas are mean.
To who?
To the people that don't like them.
And why are they mean?
Because they remind the left that their bad ideas are exactly that.
They're bad.
And the worst part is that Hunter presents them in a way that doesn't mock the individuals.
It's not making fun of people who are different or from the LGBTQ community, but he does show that the way and the approach that the left pushes their ideas is just splat out stupid.
Now, YouTube, of course, deleting him, everyone got online, including Mark Dice, James Alsup, myself, and a lot of you guys, and contacted YouTube and said, hey, why did you delete him?
He didn't violate your policies.
And then what happens?
Magically, six hours later, his YouTube is reinstated, mostly because people called YouTube out on their BS and said, look, you need to follow your own guidelines.
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I am just so thankful for the associates that I have that were able to step in and intercede on my behalf to YouTube and fight to get my YouTube channel back.
So here's where technicalities are important in this info war, is that when they try to use these technicalities, say, to arrest Julian Assange for breaking bell when we know that there's bigger issues at play, when YouTube tries to basically violate their own policies, which are already stupid to begin with, but I need to respect because I'm on their platform, we can say, hey, you're not even following your own technicalities.
So kind of in the same way when we look at this, these big tech companies, while trying to silence ideas, we got to realize that if we play within their boundaries, when we present information in a smart and intelligible way, we can actually retain our right to live on the laws that built this country and made it so great.
Whether you like Hunter Avalon or not is not important as to whether or not he has the right to exist.
And yes, whether Hunter Avalon can say whatever he wants, however he wants on a platform, maybe that's not the case in our current climate.
But whether or not that he has the right to be guided by the actual guidelines that were written is 100% expected, factual, and should hold these tech companies up to the highest level of accountability to actually follow through on what they're saying.
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The morning that my channel was deleted, I received an email from YouTube informing me that I had violated their community guidelines and that I had violated their guidelines when it comes to hate speech being allowed on their website.
There were a lot of concerning things that happened though.
The first obviously being how my channel was deleted.
I didn't receive any warnings.
I wasn't given three strikes.
My channel was just terminated out of the blue overnight.
Gone.
Even more so was the fact that my channel was deleted for alleged hate speech.
And I just want to make it very clear that although I can be harsh and although I can be critical on this channel, it is not my intention by any means to spread hate or discrimination towards anyone.
Hunter Avalon is just one example of a victim of many thousands who are simply silenced and taken down because people don't like their ideas.
Which people are these?
I'll tell you what, people, the same people that elected Representative Ted Liu from Los Angeles, a niche group of people in a very odd place in the country who don't understand what makes real America work and what Americans value, trying to keep real Americans from running their own country.
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Although I can't mention everyone that defended me, there were some pretty big names that stepped up and had my back.
Mark Dice and Brittany Pettibone both tweeted about it and helped spread the word.
Elijah, with Slightly Offensive, who's a really good friend of mine, totally had my back and posted two different videos spreading the word and letting people know what was going on.
James Alsup also supported me.
He actually just posted a video explaining why he thinks I may have been banned.
I was just absolutely amazed at the amount of support I received.
And I simply cannot thank all of you enough for having my back.
Other than the government and big tech companies, of course, no bigger perpetrator of silencing the general population of ideas they don't like would of course be the liberal media elite or as we often call them the mainstream media.
Now, for a lot of you guys that remember from our last episode a couple weeks ago, we had interviewed an activist in Australia, Avi Yemeni, and Sidney Watson about this idea where Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom, actually took Avi Yameni's interview and they spliced it up out of context to make it look like Avi Yameni not only was a sympathizer with white supremacists, but that he was complicit in the Christchurch massacre.
Now, what's absolutely insane in all of this is that to actually confront the people who falsely accused him and tried to make right-wing people look crazy, he decided to come to America to confront Jim Jeffries, the man responsible and behind this attack.
Of course, when entering the United States, he was detained by the FBI under suspecting him of ill intent or harm towards Jim Jeffries.
He was told that there was an informant that had let them know that he was going to cause problems in the U.S.
Now, Avi Yemeni has already been deported back to Australia, which is a whole slew of problems that I would never expect or understand in the freest country in the world.
But his co-host and his videographer, Sidney Watson, who was here to be on the tour with him and expose the madness of the mainstream media, here's a caveat, was also a dual citizen of the United States of America.
So while, of course, this informant that tried to get Avi Yameni deported to not do his job to expose the mainstream media, they didn't take into account that his host was a citizen and had rights to enter the country.
Now, because of her rights, she was inquiring and found out that this informant was actually Comedy Central itself, which to cover its own tail and not be accountable to its misinformation, tried to ruin the lives of two people, including its own citizen.
We have a company inside of this country, the mainstream media, who's trying to involve the FBI to destroy the lives and the career of somebody who is a fellow citizen.
This is evil to its nth degree.
And you know what?
Here we have a clip from Crowder just a week or two ago, literally telling Avi that he wasn't going to have problems entering.
Crowder, I love you, but even Crowder didn't see this one coming.
In just a few moments, we have Sidney Watson coming on.
She's tuning in live from Chicago where she's experienced some madness to give us an update on the situation.
By the way, you were talking about this before the break.
Like, I hope they let me in the stites.
It's not your country.
You need to understand here.
They don't ban you.
Like, I can't go back to Canada to perform.
I'm afraid of that.
You don't need to be afraid of the United States.
They're not going to kick you out for saying something offensive.
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They don't care.
I've got a visa.
I've got a visa.
I'm about to get it.
I'm about to test it because, and, you know, I just question because obviously Comedy Central knows I'm coming.
I haven't hidden that fact.
I've been pushing this idea.
I'm calling it my American tour against to fight the fake news.
So I want to see how far Comedy Central is going to push it because if I get to, because I've been to America a number of times, I've never had a problem.
So if I get there and I'm not let in, we know exactly what he is and who's behind it.
Like I said, it's been a really tough experience, but I'm much happier to be here with family now rather than stuck in LA because that was not fun at all.
So basically what happened was Avi and I got off the airplane and because I'm an American citizen, I went to the part where you scan in basically as an American and he went to the area where you go in as a non-U.S. citizen.
So at that point we'd been separated.
As soon as I scanned through my passport, I was immediately flagged and then I was told that I would need to speak to Border Patrol agents at which time someone came up and grabbed me.
I didn't know where Avi was at this point, but having spoken to him now after the event, he said that he was also grabbed as soon as he scanned through his passport.
So we were both grabbed basically as soon as we tried to get through customs because all the other American citizens were just leaving, whereas I'm standing there with this Border Patrol agent next to me.
So at that point, I had heart palpitations because I thought, I don't know what I've done.
I don't know why this is happening to me.
And being a dual citizen and having two passports on me at the time, I thought, oh my God, I do not want to deal with a situation where I'm put into detention or anything like that.
So basically, I was taken down to this part of the airport.
I was questioned by the agent.
She searched all my things.
She went through all my bags.
And then she took back both my passports from me as well.
And she said that she was doing it under the pretense of basically, she's like, you know, you've come into America before on your Australian passport.
We were just really confused and concerned about why you're coming in on your American passport now.
And I said to her, well, I've only just renewed it.
So there is that.
And it just seemed, it all just seemed kind of odd at the time too, because I'm thinking, you know, why are you holding me?
Because this went on for two hours.
They held me for two hours.
And at the time, I kept saying, where's my friend?
You know, I need to tell him what's going on.
I need to have a word with him.
And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get to that.
Then the FBI showed up and she said, you know, you need to talk to the FBI.
They've got some questions for you.
And they asked me if we planned to get firearms, if we were planning on being violent, if we were planning on having weapons.
And I just kept saying, no, no, no, no.
I don't know why you're asking me this.
And yeah, it just kind of went on like that for a little while.
Admittedly, the agents were all really nice to me, but I think that's because they thought the nicer they were, the more information they could extract.
And at this point, I had no idea where Avi was.
I didn't know what was going on.
I didn't know how long I'd be detained.
And I also said, you know, the other thing was that we had a flight to catch.
And they said, yeah, you'll make your flight, you make your flight.
And then, you know, obviously we didn't.
So it was all very stressful having, you know, watching people go through my things, being asked all these questions about, you know, I mean, anybody who's ever seen me knows that I'm not, I would never incite violence.
I've never, ever incited violence.
And, you know, immediately I flagged at them.
I said, you know, I'm just a journalist.
Like, I'm just here to report on news and to cover some stories.
And they kept asking about Jim Jeffries repeatedly, which, you know, for anyone who knows what's been going on with the Avi situation and Jim Jeffries will know why that's relevant.
But they kept asking about him, if we planned to go and see him, why we were going to go see him.
And I simply answered the question in that I said, you know, we're going to, we wanted to go to one of Jim's shows.
And basically, we just wanted to interview people who were going to his show.
That was the plan.
That was it.
That was all we were going to do.
And they made it out like we were going to be actually trying to incite violence, which was very upsetting for me.
And I know this is obviously concerning for you because you're an American citizen.
You have a dual citizenship for those people that didn't catch it earlier.
And so, you know, being taken by officials, I'm sure you were surprised because, you know, as an American, you look at this country, as probably I do, as one of the last great stands in hopes for freedom of speech.
But then you have two journalists who are coming to America to do journalism.
But we find out that it's not just because you were trying to investigate.
It's obviously because Comedy Central tipped off the FBI, apparently.
Could you explain to me a little bit about your shock when you heard that you were being suspected of possibly committing a crime when you were just there to do your job?
And the reality was, I spent the entire day not knowing what on earth was going on.
I had no idea where Avi was.
I had no idea where he was being held.
I just didn't know what to do.
And the fact was that they were treating us like criminals when we hadn't done anything.
All we were trying to do was cover news, was investigate this story further, was talk to Comedy Central, talk to Jim Jeffries if possible.
Never in my life have I been treated in the way that I was in the United States.
And the thing, it's like you said, you know, you expect that as an American, particularly as an American citizen, you know, but just as a general person who's coming to this country, you expect to be treated with a sense of sort of, you know, you've got liberty here, but you really don't.
And the thing that sort of upset me too was that I think once they realized I was an American and they couldn't deport me, I think it changed the game for them because then they started being like, oh, oh, oh.
And I think that was just so odd because Avi and I have talked about it since now that he's flown back to Australia.
And, you know, we were basically both convinced that they probably would have tried to send me back as well, but they couldn't because I'm a citizen.
You can't deport me from the country where I have citizenship.
So yeah, it was shocking.
It was horrible.
And I think too, the most frustrating, upsetting part for me as well was trying to get answers because A, we didn't know why it was happening.
B, when I spoke to Border Patrol agents, they were incredibly difficult.
They wouldn't answer my questions.
They basically kept fobbing me off.
They kept saying, can't tell you anything, can't help you.
And I said, well, you know, if my friend's being deported, like, what am I supposed to do here?
And they said, well, we just can't answer it.
If he doesn't call you, if he doesn't contact you, then too bad.
And sort of, I guess, like the fact that they didn't approach it at all with sympathy or empathy was really hard for me.
And it just, the thing is that you can't take journalists and you can't do this sort of stuff because the reality was we're law-abiding citizens.
We both have, you know, the rights and the means to be in America.
Avi had his visa.
I have also an ESTA waiver, which is like a thing that Australians can have with America.
So even on all fronts, we're both covered and we still put up with this.
And of course, they got him on a technicality, which is the same technicality that they got Julian Assange on, and the same technicalities that YouTube tries to get their creators on.
And it's really just an all-out assault and warfare to control the information that's put out because they don't like certain people and they don't want you to expose them.
Obviously, an example would be Jim Jeffries has limited access to his comments on his social media posts and they delete the comments that criticize him.
They can't take criticism.
Are you shocked that America's gotten to a point when companies can dish out and tear down the right, but when the right fights back to defend themselves, that they can't take the criticism?
I'm not really surprised that, well, actually, you know, in a way I am, because I always thought that America was basically like the last standing, I guess, entity that could fight back against this.
But it seems like you guys are losing the fight as well.
Because certainly in Australia and the United Kingdom, just, you know, as notable examples, we've definitely lost the fight against this sort of thing.
But what's odd to me is that a leftist organization would have this much power and authority to put in a complaint against two journalists to legitimately have us detained.
That's insane.
Think about that.
Think about that on like a logical level.
An entity that produces like media, funny media for the television, has the ability to say to the FBI, I feel endangered or whatever they said, and then have us actually put in a situation where we're being questioned by the FBI, not even by immigration or border patrol agents, but by the FBI.
It's mental.
That is insane.
And I think that Americans kind of need to realize a little bit and they need to wake up because it's happening everywhere around the world.
Why would America be safe as well?
I think Avi got the raw end of the stick on this deal.
Like I said, I'm incredibly thankful that I was protected by my US citizenship, but he obviously wasn't.
And the reality is that, you know, when I spoke to him, he said that even the FBI, the FBI are really nice to both of us.
Don't get me wrong, the agents that I dealt with, and I think from what Avi sort of indicated to me, the agents that he dealt with were also very, very nice.
But again, I think that was because they were trying to extract information.
I don't know.
It just seems like that's something that they would do.
But, you know, they even said to him, you know, we don't think you're a threat, but we're going to send you home anyway.
Because that's just ridiculous.
I mean, you can't say to people, we don't think you're going to do anything.
We think you'd probably be a safe person and then send them home.
Like, what is that?
So this whole situation is insane.
When they kept asking me about Jim Jeffries, it was at that point that I thought, you know what?
This is shady.
This is not coming from an immigration perspective.
This is coming from something else.
And if they have that sort of pool, that's incredibly disconcerting to me.
And obviously there's a financial loss with this as well as this whole trip.
Obviously, you guys pre-bought hotels and cars, probably rental cars and tickets, and you have completely been at loss.
So what's next?
What are the next steps?
You guys probably have a legal right to sue, honestly, Jim Jeffries and Comedy Central, especially as a U.S. citizen, maybe not Avi, but you do, for putting you through unnecessary harm and pressure, obviously causing trauma.
But I would like to know, you know, before we see this unfold, what are your next steps?
To be honest with you, Avi and I are basically at this point where we, I haven't really spoken to him in any sort of great detail, but that's basically the next step for us is to have a conversation about how we want to proceed with this.
A lot of people are suggesting that we do take legal action because what has happened, I think, has been a gross miscarriage of justice.
I know that sounds crazy and a little bit intense, but that's basically what I went through yesterday was one of the most unpleasant, stressful, and emotionally taxing experiences of my life.
I never want to go through that again.
And I hope to God none of you or your followers or subscribers have to go through it because it was so, so deeply unpleasant.
But, you know, at this point, I think we're just going to proceed as we were.
You know, I'm really hoping that the American media will give us some airtime on this because I think it's important.
I think it's a conversation that needs to be had because, like I said, if a leftist organization like this has the capacity to get the FBI involved just to go after two, you know, Australian journalists who've legitimately done nothing, who've never incited violence, who've never caused any problems back home, I just think it's crazy.
So we're not really sure at this point because like I said, Avi only just got back to Australia.
I'm still pretty jet lagged.
So hopefully we can have a conversation and go from there.
But obviously I'll 100% keep you up to date with what we do.
But I think something, something needs to be done.
I am glad that we don't live in 1500 where your opposition would have just had you killed.
But we do see today that they do want to silence you guys.
And sadly, even the delegitimization of independent media and journalists trying to say that we're just provocateurs or we're just entertainers is really a gross miscalculation as well.
And so I wish the best to you and Avi.
I want to stay updated on this story.
I want to keep the viewers updated.
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When you hear what Sidney Watson was talking about, an American citizen being detained because a liberal and actually in some cases you might even call a leftist media conglomerate wanted to stop her,
this small girl and her friend, from exposing the truth that one of their hosts, Jim Jeffries, and his team made a gross miscalculation and tried to slander not only an individual and their entire reputation to put them in places that made them look like an evil person, but they were now mad that they had to be held accountable.
So they involved the FBI to basically make these two journalists seem like criminals?
Hell yeah, I'm pissed off.
And I'm also frustrated, not because they're just my friends, but also because this is a bigger picture for the rest of the country.
See, when you have people like Julian Assange being called an enemy, and when you have this assault on men, but we're saying that drag queens, drag queens are who we should celebrate.
Ted Liu, oh, Ted Liu, who on his own page says that he's happy to be friends with Kathy Griffin, the same Ted Lieu that we talked about that made a verbal assault and an inaccurate confrontation and accusation against Candace Owens, that Ted Lieu who said, I'm pleased to be in the office with the cast of the queer eye for the straight guy talking about the Equality Act.
These backwards thinking government officials who are pairing up with sick, sick people that are being influenced to perpetrate a narrative that the mainstream media, like Viacom and the channels associated with it, are upholding.
And then when the backlash comes from journalists like Avi Yameni, like Sidney Watson, who by the way, Sidney Watson actually has a master's in journalism.
She's actually a contributor and a journalist, a real journalist in the traditional sense in Australia, is being treated like a criminal.
See, when we look at these people, men in dresses as a hero and a woman who's out there fighting for free speech as the enemy, yeah, damn straight we're in a bad position in our culture.
When we start celebrating the fringes and the minorities and we start excluding the majority and what's really good for the country all for the sake of equality and acceptance, when we start trying to silence people who hold us accountable because we don't like their accountability, yeah, we are in a mess.
But that mess isn't over.
And so you know what?
Sure, we have trillion-dollar tech companies against us.
We have multi-billion dollar mainstream media.
And yes, even in the hundreds of trillions of dollars of world governments that are coming against the people, the people, just seven to eight billion of us, are more powerful than all the money in the world because the power remains in the hands of the people.
And this information warfare, or as some people might call it, an info war, has only just begun.
Like we saw with Alex Jones, even though they de-platformed him, mainstream people like Logan Paul want to hear him because people want to hear the truth.
Avi Yameni will be back.
Sidney Watson isn't going away.
I'm not going away.
Hunter Avalon is here to stay.
And they can try to make us seem bad.
They can try to destroy our financial income.
They can even try to remove our social reputations.
But the American people are not stupid.
They're intelligent.
They know what the truth is.
They're looking to the truth to set them free.
And we are on a complete battle on the offensive now, looking to set the American people back on the right path, the path that they want to be on, and the path that the institutions are trying to keep them from.
I'm Elijah Schaefer here with another episode of Slightly Offensive.
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